Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Prologue
5. Preface xiii
6. Introduction: Pestilence xvii
7. Abbreviations xxxv
8. Part I Politics
9. 1 Truth, Obedience and Freedom: Some Considerations on Spinoza’s Concept of Politics and its Relation with Philosophy 1
10. 2 Hobbes and Spinoza on Natural Equality and Political Equilibrium 19
11. 3 What Would the Practice of the Universal Faith in Democracy Look Like? 40
12. 4 God or Natura naturata? Spinoza on the Identity Between God and Nature 61
13. 5 Kissing the Ring: Power, Ingenium and Disposition 80
14. 6 Violence, Speech, and Deception in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise 98
15. 7 Towards Spinoza’s Critique of Violence: On Sovereign Interruption and the Bodily Limits of Political Violence 115
16. Part III Imagination
17. 8 Recognition–Rebellion–Freedom: Emergent Identities and Political Change in Spinoza 135
18. 9 Daily Invectives: The State of Bitter Hate 153
19. 10 Imagination, Authority, and Admiratio in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Thought 172
20. 11 Spinoza’s True Prophecies: Justified Good Belief 189
21. Epilogue
22. Roundtable on Democracy, Public Reasoning and the Education of the Imagination 209
23. Works Cited 240
24. Index 253